The merchant vessel : a sailor boy's voyages around the world . d imprisonment to the individual,is the consequence of detection. The dav after our arrival, a ofano- of stevedores came onboard to unload the cotton. To show how tightly it hadbeen screwed in at Mobile Bay, it is only necessary t saythat it took fifteen men and two tackles an entire hour tobreak out six bales in the tier next the main hatchway. While the cotton was groins; out. we, the crew, wereengaged in painting the vessel outside, and refitting sundryportions of her rigging, which required it. I do not know what impressions L
The merchant vessel : a sailor boy's voyages around the world . d imprisonment to the individual,is the consequence of detection. The dav after our arrival, a ofano- of stevedores came onboard to unload the cotton. To show how tightly it hadbeen screwed in at Mobile Bay, it is only necessary t saythat it took fifteen men and two tackles an entire hour tobreak out six bales in the tier next the main hatchway. While the cotton was groins; out. we, the crew, wereengaged in painting the vessel outside, and refitting sundryportions of her rigging, which required it. I do not know what impressions Liverpool may makeupon the landsman traveller. A sailor, in describing it, wouldmost probably say that the places most worthy of a visit, or 7° THE MERCHAXT VESSEL. the lions, are the clocks, Nelsons Monument, the RoyalExchange, and the New Sailors Home—that its chief placesof amusement are the singing-houses and the donkey races,and that the great bulk of the inhabitants is about equallydivided into three classes, policemen, tailors, and ST. GEORGES HALL. This is, of course, what miorht be stvled rather a salt-waterview of Englands great commercial emporium—yet, what buta one-sided view does the common sailor get of any strangeplace he may visit. He has no opportunity for seeing any-thing more than just that portion of the ^ft/side which hap-pens to be turned toward him. ?JAILORS SHOPS. Jack works hard all clay, and after supper ging-house, where he may sit at one of a number of tawith a shipmate or two, smoke his pennorth of backy, drinkhis pot of alf-and-alf, and listen to some good, had, and indif-ferent singing. These free concert rooms, as they are called,
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